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What was you most expensive accidental damage?

I have read many claims by members that they accidently damaged their multi-thousand dollar cartridge styli by improper handling. I have blown out a few low power handling speakers with high powered amps. Several members claim that their cats have clawed the speaker cones to shreds. Have you experianced any 1) blown amplifier output transistors by accidently shorting the speaker wires. 2) Extra loud turn on thumps blowing out speakers 3)Putting the wrong tube in tube socket destroying the tube 4) leaving tube equipment so longthat the capacitors melt. 5)Electrical fires from AC shorts?
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My son accidentally played "dominos" with my Magnepan 3.5s. You know the game where one domino falls into the next domino knocking it down, etc. etc.
I was working and my wife was so afraid to tell me, she waited for me to get home then made me sit down before giving me the bad news(I thought she was pregnant again).
He was small and it was an accident but I didn't speak to my wife for about a week (it was her turn to watch him). Even my son knew he had done something wrong. Magnepan did a marvelous job of rebuilding them, basically giving me 2 brand new speakers, and only charging me for the cost of the parts.
The good thing is that both my son AND my wife keep their distance now.
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